I love the Lord.
Sometimes His love courses through my entire being so powerfully, I can actually feel a strong tug on my heart. This tug may go on for many days or weeks, and in those times, all I can do is engage in this intense worshipful romance with the Lover of my soul. All I want to do in such times is keep His lovely face before my eyes and gaze upon His beauty, love Him and let Him love me. I absolutely love it when He draws me in for some TLC.
Then there are times – times when this intense feeling of tender love gives way to absolute awe. Perhaps you know what I’m talking about.
Dictionary.com defines “awe” as “an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, e.t.c., produced by that which is grand, sublime, extremely powerful or the like.”
Lexico.com defines it as “a feeling of reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder.”
In this dimension of worship, all you see is the wonderful magnificence of our God; all you focus on is His awesome greatness and powerful acts. Your heart shudders in reverence just thinking about His person and attributes.
You think about this God who is clothed in the brightest of lights; whose eyes are intensely ablaze; whose voice thunders like the sound of many rushing waters; whose feet are of burnished bronze and from whose mouth proceeds a double-edged sword.
You think about His mighty and terrible acts which He wrought in Egypt, and over and over again afterwards. You think about this God who can kill and make alive; who holds all things by the word of His power; in whom all things hold, to whom all things belong, from whom all things flow and for whom all things exist!
You lay prostrate on your face because you cannot imagine why this great God is so mindful of you that He draws you to Himself just to love on you.
There’s a kind of confident strength it produces inside of you just to know that this same God is your God – your very own personal God.
Everything suddenly fades away in the presence of your King. All your troubles, fears and anxieties become infinitesimal as you gaze upon the majesty of the Lord of Armies!
You just know that with Him on your side, you can run through troops and leap over walls. You know that no coalition of demonic powers can prevail over you because of whose you are. This reverent and worshipful fear of God causes you to enter into a realm of confident rest.
This kind of worship is even more powerful when it goes beyond a few minutes of verbal adoration, and becomes a lifestyle. A life of reverence and worshipful fear produces confident strength, trust and rest in God.
This, I believe, is what King Solomon was referring to in Proverbs 14: 26-27
In the reverent and worshipful fear of the Lord there is strong confidence, and His children shall always have a place of refuge. Reverent and worshipful fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, that one may avoid the snares of death. (AMPC)
Oh how great our God is! What an anchor we have in Him. What a sure and solid rock He is. He is our hiding place and strong tower. We are inaccessible to the powers of hell because we are hidden in Him and seated with Him.
Glory to God! I just want to dance and praise on this one!
Dear one, never lose your wonder. Stay in awe of Him!
What are you learning from Proverbs 14 today?